Due to the way emergency (911) calls work with any phone that can connect to a cell tower even if the SIM is inactive, Starlink may provide emergency calls across all carriers provided phones can use the cell band they are broadcasting on.
They’re starting with texting, MMS, and select messaging apps but not calling so at least for the time being they won’t be handling 911 calls. At least until they get out of initial beta and add voice calls.
I feel like I'm in a starlink beta. For educational purposes only. Lol. I couldn't handle the truth. But the want me on that wall! They need me on that wall! Lol
Please don't tell me I have been paying 60.00 $ a month for calling and messages. Lol. Because the rest of it it archives and libraries and whoever else is in this beta's craziness. Jeezy. Can someone please tell me why I am being held prisoner on their starship Enterprise!!! Lol. Anyone? My gosh
As a worker in the cruise industry, this is a life changer, at sea there's no cell service and we are forced to use a veeery slow satellite connection through the ship's wifi.
For people in agriculture where there is no phone signal. Is there a way to write an antenna on the tractor that can be connected to the cell phone so that a the phone can be used while on the field inside a tractor?
If apple were to announce satellite connectivity at their event, it would most likely be available immediately, whereas this won’t be out for a few years our so
If I understand correctly they plan on use the 700mhz band. Which is a band that is supported by 4G LTE. Meaning it will work with pretty much the majority of phones made in the last 7+ years. There are websites you can check which phones support which bands. There also used to be differences in which bands supported per region for older phones but for the most part the majority of people should be able to use this.
So the antenna is gonna be under the display, unless you flip your phone over to talk. And how would they deal with space dust, while transmitting laser lights? And this would burn through your battery cause you'll need some real wattage to transmit to space. Ham radio operators use up to 1000watts just to bounce a signal off the moon eme.
There are a couple other companies launching satellites specifically for this same thing. One of them will support broadband communication with your phone. AST Spacemobile will launch a test satellite in the next week or so. In 2 years if everything works, it will be faster and offer more options than the t-mobile service. Still not sure which cell companies it will work with.
This is historic. Imagine phones working everywhere on the planet. My work has so much potential now. Even with having on Personal Hotspot. I have to make so much plans now. This actually the most innovation in tech I’ve seen in years. This is actual tech innovation means.
Yeah but it's slower than dial-up if there's more than six people within five square miles of you. It's cell zone only has enough bandwidth to stream one standard quality RUclips video, and that shared among everyone within a couple miles of you. So you won't be using hotspot or working from it.
Not before they can make your body and mind part of the Internet of things. Elon has already started to tap into our neurons. Thats where I draw the line. Its absolute slavery ruled by one mind.
@@marshalm83 roaming works like a VPN. You connect to different carrier in another country and whole data (calling, SMS, cellular) is being delivered to your home country and then to the receiver (internet, phone number...)
@@alanmay7929 If every country launched their own satellites it could become a shell that new launch’s couldn’t penetrate. This isn’t a country it’s a business.
I worked at a T-Mobile facility referred to as “Tech Experience” and they had a concept idea where you would have a drone that would carry a personal hotspot if you will, and this drone would fly in the area of someone who’s been reported lost so if said person still had a working phone the drone would give them signal to get into direct contact with said person. I’d imagine T-Mobile acknowledges that the drone idea gets crushed by starlink.
There is a problem with the whole drone idea thing thing in the fact that if they are in an area where the person is reported missing that person themselves could not get a cell signal in that area in that area so how is the drone gonna do that if there is no cellular service you're service if there's no cellular service the drone acting as soon as a hotspot it's a hotspot would not be working .
Hopefully this will improve T-Mobiles cell phone coverage. Recently on Mackinac Island, MI and had little to no cell phone service in town. This is a town with thousands of visitors each day including several cruise ships. The best I got was 2mps down and .002mps up.
So, on the emergency thing if you're not on T-Mobile, I'd guess if the current wording of the law doesn't enforce it, they could update the laws that currently make it where if you place an emergency call or send text to 911, things like roaming agreements and stuff doesn't matter. Whatever tower no matter who owns it has to connect the call or send the message. I imagine that would easily get tied to this SpaceX thing if it really is just using already existing tech on phones.
matter of fact, your phone does not even send out a “dial 911” signal to the nearest tower. your phone matches the number on device to a list of acceptable emergency numbers (112, 999, 911) and it will send out a special “I’m making an emergency call” signal for all of them, so people can make emergency calls even if they don’t know the local number and so towers in another country can route calls if you’re near a border even if that country has a different number.
Here in Canada, Rogers has a feature where it shuts down all it's services (including trying to dial 911) for a few hours to a couple of days every couple of years or so Edit: I forgot to mention the best part, it affects everybody with Rogers nationwide, happened 2 times already in less than 4 years
Where are you getting that there will be no additional charge? I wouldn’t put it past T-Mobile, but I was just reading their press announcement and they didn’t say that. In fact it sounded more like it will be a new plan option above the current ones if anything. was there an additional statement?
That Starlink should be available to all Cellular Service Customers,especially for Emergency Use when there is No regular service available like when Tornados and Hurricanes destroy the Cell towers . Starlink could be a real Life saver.
If this is as reliable as I hope it is it will completely change how people connect to emergency services while backpacking. Currently I have an overpriced ($400) garmin inreach mini that is essentially a satellite phone and I have to pay $30 / year plus $15 a month to use it. It is completely absurd and I would much rather use my iphone for both cost and weight purposes.
Yeah I’m excited for the feature but sadly I won’t be upgrading any time soon because I have a 13 pro max. Hopefully when I do upgrade the satellite features will be better and more reliable.
T-Mobile has WiFi calling so if you are in a area with no T-Mobile service, you can still make and receive calls and SMS text messages on WiFi with your t-mobile phone..
I just got starlink and live in southeast alaska. My speeds are consistently 230MBps down actually it’s getting faster in the month I’ve had it, closer to 300! Starlink sent me a letter saying that our satellites in alaska are the new Laser ones, they want me to let them know how there working
Perhaps the StarLink app must have on all iPhones including the final and last one. Even this must do on iPhone 13 and past, including all pro versions. Then again it must have on all Android phones no matter what we have obsolete or not. Now how difficult is this?
The duality in my mind weighs …Yes sometimes it will save lives in dead zones and also the privacy tracking to your location can be deadly to your life over time.. love tech advancements , just remember the lessons of terminator movies and Megan .
I guess if they had it linkable with Starlink routers, that would give you usage even when inside as long as you have Starlink. Cell signal could be routed through the router and the dish.
I have noticed on my iPhone 13 promax I’ve been running iOS 16 and whenever I’m in a no service area SOS only pops up I’m not on T-Mobile but it definitely does this. You have to be in a clear side of the sky.
your phone should be able to connect to all nearby towers with a sufficiently strong signal for emergency calls even without a SIM, let alone if your particular provider happens to have no coverage. that’s the difference between “no signal” and “emergency calls only”. this is because when you dial an emergency number it does not work the same way as calling a normal number. in reality your phone checks the number against a list of emergency numbers and if there’s a match it will transmit a special emergency call signal that is required by law to be picked up by mobile carriers and routed appropriately even without knowing the subscriber identity. dialing, say, the UK emergency number (999) will work just fine to get to your local 911 dispatcher in the US.
Please look at the September Apple Event 2022. It’s not full on Satellite service, it’s only SOS service. No you won’t be able to call and text other people. It’s simple if you are hiking or something, you can be found in remote locations. It’s not connecting to Starlink because for years satellite phones have existed and it’s that same tech that will be used for the SOS feature of the satellite connection on iPhone 14.
Mobile phones have a limit of transmission and that is around 50 km to 120 km. This is at 900Mhz, lower frequencies don't change this a lot. You can get a signal from a distant transmitter (happens often in mountains). Then there's orbital mechanics and other problems (signal pathways, relative motions and more) that are going to make this impossible or difficult to work. Maximum transmission power of a mobile phone at lower frequencies is 2W and 1W at higher frequencies.
Hopefully we can text and make calls with this service not just emergency calls would be a great benefit to me always being deep in mountainous regions with no service..
Maybe I’ll finally get T-Mobile service in my urban area in the Los Angeles area that for some reason still has no T-Mobile or AT&T service even for phone calls.
@@ianshyu turn on roaming on your phone like I did to see if it helps. T-Mobile does not charge to roam. I in LA also. I live in a condo in Little Tokyo.
Hint: Starlink will use T-Mobile spectrum (PCS was mentioned once). T-Mobile's spectrum is licenced only for use in the USA. That same spectrum is used by other carriers elsewhere and they won't take lightly to T-Mobile using their spectrum without a licence over their countrry. So expect the satellites to only enable those cellular service while over the USA, and very likely will shut off prior to reaching Canada/Mexico to ensure their beams don't reach outside of licenced territory. One of the reasons cell carriers don't want us to use cell phones on planes (apart from airlines not wanting us to) is that in flight, your phone will see equal power from a large number of cells and its broadcast will be seen by cells on a large footprit which will cause interference with local users. I have to wonder how they will deal with the reverse where your phone will see multiple satellites and will needs to jump from one the the next as they move in the sky and whether there will be a lot of jumping when satellites are almost equal power from phone's point of view. That annoucement was great hype, but showed they hadn't actually worked thing out yet. (phones typically only have enough power to reach about 30km distance, and those satelites are hundreds if not 1000km high in the sky. (Musk will have satellites at higher orbits eventually as well the ones at low orbit.
There is no starlink cellphone. Starlinks licensed Ka and Ku band which is not really suitable for cellphone service. Any kind of of roof and even tree leaves are enough to block Ka and Ku signal. This is why Starlink has to partner with T mobile it is because T mobile owns a license of suitable spectrum.
You say you can’t watch YT videos on a connection 2-4Mbps, but I did exactly that until 2020. I mean, you used to watch YT videos on a 1Megabit connection like you said in your older videos. Yes it is Buffery and laggy, but it still possible.
The cell is 2-4 mbps which means that is the total capacity for anyone in about 100 square miles (or a a 10-20 mile radius). A current cell with the regular Starlink hardware has 20GBps of capacity, by comparison. Which still could only serve sparsely populated regions. Moreover, in the first 5 years or so coverage will be very intermittent, you might only have 30 seconds of service in each satellite orbit, which is around 90 minutes. If coverage increases it might be 10x 30 seconds etc. Until full coverage.
Well your iPhone Pro Max actually is compatible. That's the thing. You don't need a new phone, it works with the old phones. T-Mobile is switching all cell phone towers to 5G and then switching 4G to satellite only. Technically Verizon has much less square miles covered than t-mobile, since while Verizon is good, they haven't improved much while T-Mobile improved a lot. Now that T-Mobile purchased all the spectrum and bought out sprint, they now have the most coverage and the highest speeds. Verizon kind of sucks now, which is why their stock isn't doing so well lately. Although technically you could bring your existing iPhone 11 Pro Max over to T-Mobile and for $35 a month, have unlimited talk, text, data, international roaming, hotspot, and no dead zones anywhere in the planet including on cruise ships or Antarctica or whatever.
It's kind of funny you think its weird that T-Mobile would be the only one have the starlink service. You should also know the gave a special cell range just to just ATT customers for first responders. So if you are a first responder and want to take advantage of this you have to have a ATT cell phone. I think this is good for T-Mobile, a lot of people have looked down on them and maybe this will put them on top.
how an iPhone 13 without a satellite antena can recieve satellite data? iPhone 14 and newer can, but 13 can't (at least that's what I know). The only possible way is that satellite beams were like cellular, or something like that... but, its impossible, cell signals can't travel so long distances because of their wavelenght.
Right now T-Mobile is doing the video call for the veterans administration and the service is really not good. I have vorizon and there are parts of Colorado and Arizona when you go hiking or skiing we don’t get any service for vorizon and T-Mobile
They might let you do 911 calls over Starl Link from all providers but not regular calls. That is how we got it with different providers in Sweden for mobile.
I don’t think that’s how it will work. The cables you mention are the problem. Putting up a tower with a satellite on it is not hard. I think we would connect to the towers and the towers would beam up instead on needing to be connected with wires
Great video and explanation throughout! Unfortunately, the video title makes it sound like a special feature of iPhone when, just as you shared on the video, it’s all modern phones
That’s crazy because Apple announced they’re releasing satellite SOS for emergency purposes and that’s coming out on the Apple Watch 8 and iPhone 14 🤣😂 i can’t keep up mobile phones are able to utilize satellite Internet that could be the speed. We definitely need to move into the next phase because 5G still not good for a FaceTime call or any type of video call it’s crappy.
I don’t think it should be with one carrier. It should be a service you can buy for let’s say 2.99 a month. Cause everyone will literally pay that to know that they have a chance of safety.
They invited other carriers to join Dwayne all it requires is other carriers to call and get in touch with space X it's X and do whatever the necessary paperwork or whatever it is
The biggest limitation for Starlink is its concurrency the speed and latency is already a big improvement from traditional satellite internet. The network concurrency is low I think there was an article a couple of years back that says it can only handle 500K active users. Even if you multiply by 10 to accommodate advances in technology since it’s still just 5 million. Which after people with yachts / planes / buses / businesses will leave “others” behind. Ironic since this was one of the original intent of Starlink was to connect the world.
man. starlink has just started and only deployed like 10% of their target number of total satellites planned to deploy. the more satellites means the more bandwidth also add the fact that starlink keeps updating their hardware like deploying the new v2 satellites which has more capabilities instead of using the same previous generation... give starlink some more years and it will destroy the competition in terms of capacity and speed. the only factor that starlink won't be able to overcome is the latency vs land-based systems.
@@iamwisdomsky The article seems to know how Starlink works. If satellite downlink bandwidth aggregation is really part of what they will do then that would tax their intra-satellite comms bandwidth. The best approach is to offload to a land based internet near the destination website. Remember these are relatively“small” satellites and don’t have much power and I mean power in every sense of the word. Lastly, even then the math I provided x10 of what the website said. Just think about it. Just to be clear, I believe in the tech I think satellite net will really revolutionize internet and bring it to far flung places. Also,the old Satellite internet is too slow and very unreliable and Starlink is orders of magnitude better, Heck I may even buy and subscribe if the rumored retained partner (Converge) is true. However, I am just saying that the current tech as it is just has the concurrency limitations.
Actually Att was way ahead of this games . Their subsidary satellite company has already successfully done a voice call on a 5g transmitter mounted to a satellite (which is actually what we’re talking about here) T-Mobile has yet to do this as of June 23 Realistically what’s holding things back is concerns of EM interference. The FCC has been petitioned that tmobiles plan is not going to work until they address interference with the bands next to them In the spectrum.
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Due to the way emergency (911) calls work with any phone that can connect to a cell tower even if the SIM is inactive, Starlink may provide emergency calls across all carriers provided phones can use the cell band they are broadcasting on.
That's probably how it would actually be handled to avoid all kinds of legal problems for T-Mobile and Starlink.
@MrLimeRunner Here’s hoping :-)
They’re starting with texting, MMS, and select messaging apps but not calling so at least for the time being they won’t be handling 911 calls. At least until they get out of initial beta and add voice calls.
I feel like I'm in a starlink beta. For educational purposes only. Lol. I couldn't handle the truth. But the want me on that wall! They need me on that wall! Lol
Please don't tell me I have been paying 60.00 $ a month for calling and messages. Lol. Because the rest of it it archives and libraries and whoever else is in this beta's craziness. Jeezy. Can someone please tell me why I am being held prisoner on their starship Enterprise!!! Lol. Anyone? My gosh
Two weeks later and the iPhone 14 has Satellite SOS abilities
Amazing how far tech has come!
Just got mine love it
As a worker in the cruise industry, this is a life changer, at sea there's no cell service and we are forced to use a veeery slow satellite connection through the ship's wifi.
That was exactly what I was thinking
Thank you for your perspective. This technology makes perfect sense for a situation like yours!
For people in agriculture where there is no phone signal. Is there a way to write an antenna on the tractor that can be connected to the cell phone so that a the phone can be used while on the field inside a tractor?
@@jacksellers4412antenna Not necessary, the sat signal can be picked up inside the tractor
Love this, But I'm more excited to see how AT&T and Verizon responds.
AT&T is partnered with SpaceMobile which likely will be up and running much earlier. Verizon now has to pick a side.
@@momentsinstockhistory8330 Did not know that. Interesting - I'm with AT&T.
Me too! It'll be an' interesting ride for sure.
Verizon already has picked a side. They've teamed up with Amazon's Kuiper.
So will we have to get a different service package or plan in order to have access to satellite internet?
Looks like I’m not leaving T-Mobile anytime soon
So basically, Elon Musk / SpaceX just stole Apple’s thunder for the September 7th event.
No, because Apple isn’t announcing a competing product and that isn’t for another 2 weeks.
No cuz apple would have to be in on the tech for iPhones to use star link
@@bryanmiller476 So, you didn't watch the video.
If apple were to announce satellite connectivity at their event, it would most likely be available immediately, whereas this won’t be out for a few years our so
For Americans on T-Mobile
If I understand correctly they plan on use the 700mhz band. Which is a band that is supported by 4G LTE. Meaning it will work with pretty much the majority of phones made in the last 7+ years. There are websites you can check which phones support which bands. There also used to be differences in which bands supported per region for older phones but for the most part the majority of people should be able to use this.
There are to versions of the 700 MHz band. The APT band and the FCC one
@@RobertDunn310 The planned freq is LTE band 2 and not 5G.
@@donjenkins2465 any technical articles on this?
So 1900MHz Band 2 LTE from space? Woah@@donjenkins2465
This is perfect for off grid living
I’m luckily in a 4g sweet spot off grid but my scattered neighbours will be weeping with joy. No signal during the floods we had recently was not fun.
I mean how off the grid is it really then, like literally 😂
I do a lot of remote work in Australia so I'm very excited to hear about this development. Cheers.
So the antenna is gonna be under the display, unless you flip your phone over to talk. And how would they deal with space dust, while transmitting laser lights? And this would burn through your battery cause you'll need some real wattage to transmit to space. Ham radio operators use up to 1000watts just to bounce a signal off the moon eme.
There are a couple other companies launching satellites specifically for this same thing. One of them will support broadband communication with your phone. AST Spacemobile will launch a test satellite in the next week or so. In 2 years if everything works, it will be faster and offer more options than the t-mobile service. Still not sure which cell companies it will work with.
This is historic. Imagine phones working everywhere on the planet. My work has so much potential now. Even with having on Personal Hotspot. I have to make so much plans now. This actually the most innovation in tech I’ve seen in years. This is actual tech innovation means.
finally new and exciting tech!
Everywhere around the planet as long as you're American on T-Mobile
@@ArthurET hope they do it here in belgium too
Lol….. it has nothing historic to it! It can be achieved also with many other even smaller satellites constellations
Yeah but it's slower than dial-up if there's more than six people within five square miles of you. It's cell zone only has enough bandwidth to stream one standard quality RUclips video, and that shared among everyone within a couple miles of you. So you won't be using hotspot or working from it.
We just need the internet to be complete open and uncensored.
Not before they can make your body and mind part of the Internet of things. Elon has already started to tap into our neurons. Thats where I draw the line. Its absolute slavery ruled by one mind.
5:33 actually during the Q&A, someone asked this question and the T-Mobile CEO said that other providers can hop on to the service
Yes he did say that but that requires them to get in touch with space X And work out a deal on that end of things to get that up and going
I hope that space X Will spread this out internationally. I would love this feature to be available in Australia.
No more starlink phone?
The carriers in each countries needs to work with SpaceX
Why can’t Australia just launch their own satellites!? Wtf!!! Why need to depend on foreign companies
@@marshalm83 roaming works like a VPN. You connect to different carrier in another country and whole data (calling, SMS, cellular) is being delivered to your home country and then to the receiver (internet, phone number...)
@@alanmay7929 If every country launched their own satellites it could become a shell that new launch’s couldn’t penetrate. This isn’t a country it’s a business.
I worked at a T-Mobile facility referred to as “Tech Experience” and they had a concept idea where you would have a drone that would carry a personal hotspot if you will, and this drone would fly in the area of someone who’s been reported lost so if said person still had a working phone the drone would give them signal to get into direct contact with said person. I’d imagine T-Mobile acknowledges that the drone idea gets crushed by starlink.
Lol….. they could easily use much smaller satellites called swan much closer to earth for low connectivity
No need for starlink tbh!
There is a problem with the whole drone idea thing thing in the fact that if they are in an area where the person is reported missing that person themselves could not get a cell signal in that area in that area so how is the drone gonna do that if there is no cellular service you're service if there's no cellular service the drone acting as soon as a hotspot it's a hotspot would not be working .
@@notuptome Elevation
They said in the announcement that any carriers could opt in to use starlink.
Hopefully this will improve T-Mobiles cell phone coverage. Recently on Mackinac Island, MI and had little to no cell phone service in town. This is a town with thousands of visitors each day including several cruise ships. The best I got was 2mps down and .002mps up.
So, on the emergency thing if you're not on T-Mobile, I'd guess if the current wording of the law doesn't enforce it, they could update the laws that currently make it where if you place an emergency call or send text to 911, things like roaming agreements and stuff doesn't matter. Whatever tower no matter who owns it has to connect the call or send the message. I imagine that would easily get tied to this SpaceX thing if it really is just using already existing tech on phones.
matter of fact, your phone does not even send out a “dial 911” signal to the nearest tower. your phone matches the number on device to a list of acceptable emergency numbers (112, 999, 911) and it will send out a special “I’m making an emergency call” signal for all of them, so people can make emergency calls even if they don’t know the local number and so towers in another country can route calls if you’re near a border even if that country has a different number.
Here in Canada, Rogers has a feature where it shuts down all it's services (including trying to dial 911) for a few hours to a couple of days every couple of years or so
Edit: I forgot to mention the best part, it affects everybody with Rogers nationwide, happened 2 times already in less than 4 years
Please note that this won’t work underground
Where are you getting that there will be no additional charge? I wouldn’t put it past T-Mobile, but I was just reading their press announcement and they didn’t say that. In fact it sounded more like it will be a new plan option above the current ones if anything. was there an additional statement?
I am not pumped I work at T-Mobile and have to explain this to customers.
So you have to do your job ? Wow sucks
Not that hard to explain lol
That Starlink should be available to all Cellular Service Customers,especially for Emergency Use when there is No regular service available like when Tornados and Hurricanes destroy the Cell towers . Starlink could be a real Life saver.
Garmin inreach mini already does and works north to South Pole and anywhere in between
If this is as reliable as I hope it is it will completely change how people connect to emergency services while backpacking. Currently I have an overpriced ($400) garmin inreach mini that is essentially a satellite phone and I have to pay $30 / year plus $15 a month to use it. It is completely absurd and I would much rather use my iphone for both cost and weight purposes.
Yeah I’m excited for the feature but sadly I won’t be upgrading any time soon because I have a 13 pro max. Hopefully when I do upgrade the satellite features will be better and more reliable.
T-Mobile has WiFi calling so if you are in a area with no T-Mobile service, you can still make and receive calls and SMS text messages on WiFi with your t-mobile phone..
This is also great for Search & Rescue as it’ll save a lot of time, stress and tax dollars. Victims will also have a much smaller bill to pay.
Garmin inreach mini existing
I just got starlink and live in southeast alaska. My speeds are consistently 230MBps down actually it’s getting faster in the month I’ve had it, closer to 300! Starlink sent me a letter saying that our satellites in alaska are the new Laser ones, they want me to let them know how there working
Are you able to watch movies? Upload files as if on 5G? What is a fair comparison?
All the carriers will or should have an agreement to use their network to call 911 if another carrier’s customer needs too
Perhaps the StarLink app must have on all iPhones including the final and last one. Even this must do on iPhone 13 and past, including all pro versions. Then again it must have on all Android phones no matter what we have obsolete or not. Now how difficult is this?
satellite-based communication is one aspect that was planned for 5g specification wise.
Garmin inreach mini!!
The duality in my mind weighs …Yes sometimes it will save lives in dead zones and also the privacy tracking to your location can be deadly to your life over time.. love tech advancements , just remember the lessons of terminator movies and Megan .
I guess if they had it linkable with Starlink routers, that would give you usage even when inside as long as you have Starlink. Cell signal could be routed through the router and the dish.
I read where T-Mobile is now a blend of several phone companies: Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. Anyone. have more info?
It’s band n2/n25 going in beta at the end of next year
I have noticed on my iPhone 13 promax I’ve been running iOS 16 and whenever I’m in a no service area SOS only pops up I’m not on T-Mobile but it definitely does this. You have to be in a clear side of the sky.
your phone should be able to connect to all nearby towers with a sufficiently strong signal for emergency calls even without a SIM, let alone if your particular provider happens to have no coverage. that’s the difference between “no signal” and “emergency calls only”.
this is because when you dial an emergency number it does not work the same way as calling a normal number. in reality your phone checks the number against a list of emergency numbers and if there’s a match it will transmit a special emergency call signal that is required by law to be picked up by mobile carriers and routed appropriately even without knowing the subscriber identity. dialing, say, the UK emergency number (999) will work just fine to get to your local 911 dispatcher in the US.
Am really worried about this new system! I live in Alaska and Satellite does not work well here! Wont be able to get this new phone!
Imagine 24 hour wall of adverts
The Garmin InReach has had handheld satcomms since 2018 using the Iridium satellite network.
This is a huge relief for anyone in a rural area who has TMobile now...it sucks just a tad more than Verizon. Our Starlink internet is awesome though.
Please look at the September Apple Event 2022. It’s not full on Satellite service, it’s only SOS service. No you won’t be able to call and text other people. It’s simple if you are hiking or something, you can be found in remote locations. It’s not connecting to Starlink because for years satellite phones have existed and it’s that same tech that will be used for the SOS feature of the satellite connection on iPhone 14.
Mobile phones have a limit of transmission and that is around 50 km to 120 km. This is at 900Mhz, lower frequencies don't change this a lot. You can get a signal from a distant transmitter (happens often in mountains). Then there's orbital mechanics and other problems (signal pathways, relative motions and more) that are going to make this impossible or difficult to work. Maximum transmission power of a mobile phone at lower frequencies is 2W and 1W at higher frequencies.
No Gilligan’s Island reboot Elon must be stopped.
Hopefully we can text and make calls with this service not just emergency calls would be a great benefit to me always being deep in mountainous regions with no service..
The US NAVY is probably hating this news
It will work even better on top of a mountain
Maybe I’ll finally get T-Mobile service in my urban area in the Los Angeles area that for some reason still has no T-Mobile or AT&T service even for phone calls.
What part of LA and what phone are you using?
@@PhyuckYew San Gabriel Valley, I have an iPhone 13 mini.
@@ianshyu turn on roaming on your phone like I did to see if it helps. T-Mobile does not charge to roam. I in LA also. I live in a condo in Little Tokyo.
@@PhyuckYew it doesn’t matter if it’s on or off. As long as I’m inside on T-Mobile or AT&T, I can’t make calls or use cell data.
With Elon involved, maybe by 2028 if we're lucky
It can't be a monopoly because they have opened up to other network carriers joining if they want.
Hint: Starlink will use T-Mobile spectrum (PCS was mentioned once). T-Mobile's spectrum is licenced only for use in the USA. That same spectrum is used by other carriers elsewhere and they won't take lightly to T-Mobile using their spectrum without a licence over their countrry. So expect the satellites to only enable those cellular service while over the USA, and very likely will shut off prior to reaching Canada/Mexico to ensure their beams don't reach outside of licenced territory.
One of the reasons cell carriers don't want us to use cell phones on planes (apart from airlines not wanting us to) is that in flight, your phone will see equal power from a large number of cells and its broadcast will be seen by cells on a large footprit which will cause interference with local users. I have to wonder how they will deal with the reverse where your phone will see multiple satellites and will needs to jump from one the the next as they move in the sky and whether there will be a lot of jumping when satellites are almost equal power from phone's point of view.
That annoucement was great hype, but showed they hadn't actually worked thing out yet. (phones typically only have enough power to reach about 30km distance, and those satelites are hundreds if not 1000km high in the sky. (Musk will have satellites at higher orbits eventually as well the ones at low orbit.
Imagine a plane crashing near some some mountain without any cellulair internet near and starlink saving the people that survived
Will this work for metro or other T-Mobile brands?
What happened to the Starlink cellphone?
There is no starlink cellphone. Starlinks licensed Ka and Ku band which is not really suitable for cellphone service. Any kind of of roof and even tree leaves are enough to block Ka and Ku signal. This is why Starlink has to partner with T mobile it is because T mobile owns a license of suitable spectrum.
Have you tried Visible wireless?
You say you can’t watch YT videos on a connection 2-4Mbps, but I did exactly that until 2020. I mean, you used to watch YT videos on a 1Megabit connection like you said in your older videos. Yes it is Buffery and laggy, but it still possible.
The cell is 2-4 mbps which means that is the total capacity for anyone in about 100 square miles (or a a 10-20 mile radius). A current cell with the regular Starlink hardware has 20GBps of capacity, by comparison. Which still could only serve sparsely populated regions. Moreover, in the first 5 years or so coverage will be very intermittent, you might only have 30 seconds of service in each satellite orbit, which is around 90 minutes. If coverage increases it might be 10x 30 seconds etc. Until full coverage.
*Only for emergency situations
Can you update iOS and iPad os with starlink
Although it’s cool and all, I’m staying on my iPhone 11 Pro Max, and sticking with Verizon 4G. I’m rarely ever in a dead zone.
Rarely. I think that's the point of the service.
Well your iPhone Pro Max actually is compatible. That's the thing. You don't need a new phone, it works with the old phones. T-Mobile is switching all cell phone towers to 5G and then switching 4G to satellite only. Technically Verizon has much less square miles covered than t-mobile, since while Verizon is good, they haven't improved much while T-Mobile improved a lot. Now that T-Mobile purchased all the spectrum and bought out sprint, they now have the most coverage and the highest speeds. Verizon kind of sucks now, which is why their stock isn't doing so well lately. Although technically you could bring your existing iPhone 11 Pro Max over to T-Mobile and for $35 a month, have unlimited talk, text, data, international roaming, hotspot, and no dead zones anywhere in the planet including on cruise ships or Antarctica or whatever.
You don't need a new phone, all phones made since 2018 is compatible with starlink already :)
I don’t want a satellite 🛰 connecting to my phone 📞 and tracking me…very ominous technology!🙄
Your phone is not directly connect to Satellites. It is connected to Starlink on ground and Starlink talks to Satellites. Please make it clear.
It's kind of funny you think its weird that T-Mobile would be the only one have the starlink service. You should also know the gave a special cell range just to just ATT customers for first responders. So if you are a first responder and want to take advantage of this you have to have a ATT cell phone. I think this is good for T-Mobile, a lot of people have looked down on them and maybe this will put them on top.
You don't need to buy new IPhone to connect to Starlink.
Any phones with Tmobile service will work with Starlink.
how an iPhone 13 without a satellite antena can recieve satellite data? iPhone 14 and newer can, but 13 can't (at least that's what I know). The only possible way is that satellite beams were like cellular, or something like that... but, its impossible, cell signals can't travel so long distances because of their wavelenght.
lets see how t mobile is going to clip us with the new service ? i wish star link would have done it on its own .
Right now T-Mobile is doing the video call for the veterans administration and the service is really not good. I have vorizon and there are parts of Colorado and Arizona when you go hiking or skiing we don’t get any service for vorizon and T-Mobile
They might let you do 911 calls over Starl Link from all providers but not regular calls. That is how we got it with different providers in Sweden for mobile.
Will it work on ships Or submarines?
You need a clear view of the sky to use the service
I might have to switch to T-Mobile
I am a long haul truck driver, i drive in such remote areas with no signals all the time, This is the major reason why i am buying iPhone 14
This is going to be a god tier feature for iPhones
Any modern phone will be able to do this not just iphones as he said
This will be a massive game changer in all regions.
now the remote-villaged pygmies in gwakka-gwakka will die "mysteriously" of brain cancer
How could I use phone with out electricity.
Data breach or full coverage?
Heck I'm in the middle of the state and would need Sat service for t mobile to even work here because they suck big time
Emergency calls will probably have to be free for everyone
They have been for a long time.
iPhone got something like that now
this should make roaming irrelevant, but I have no doubt telecom companies will whatever they can to not give up their roaming fees
Creative screenwriter: Your phone is broken problem solved ;)
I look forward to roaming the world with no roaming.
Starting next year?
I am excited about this!
Im distrscted by how good this dude looks
It might really be a breakthrough
I don’t think that’s how it will work. The cables you mention are the problem. Putting up a tower with a satellite on it is not hard. I think we would connect to the towers and the towers would beam up instead on needing to be connected with wires
Great video and explanation throughout! Unfortunately, the video title makes it sound like a special feature of iPhone when, just as you shared on the video, it’s all modern phones
The video I watched Starlink and T-mobile invited alll carriers around the globe to join in and give reciprocal service in "dead" zones
horror movies would just make it so the phone breaks or battery goes or something
That’s crazy because Apple announced they’re releasing satellite SOS for emergency purposes and that’s coming out on the Apple Watch 8 and iPhone 14 🤣😂 i can’t keep up mobile phones are able to utilize satellite Internet that could be the speed. We definitely need to move into the next phase because 5G still not good for a FaceTime call or any type of video call it’s crappy.
But will Mint Mobile users get starlink?
irony
Lol how much shorter cast away would have been lol
I don’t think it should be with one carrier. It should be a service you can buy for let’s say 2.99 a month. Cause everyone will literally pay that to know that they have a chance of safety.
They invited other carriers to join Dwayne all it requires is other carriers to call and get in touch with space X it's X and do whatever the necessary paperwork or whatever it is
While it sounds like an altruistic ideal, I wonder if it’s all about safety.
AT WHAT COST?
This sound familiar when you could get a apple fone if u where with ATT for number of yrs
The biggest limitation for Starlink is its concurrency the speed and latency is already a big improvement from traditional satellite internet.
The network concurrency is low I think there was an article a couple of years back that says it can only handle 500K active users. Even if you multiply by 10 to accommodate advances in technology since it’s still just 5 million. Which after people with yachts / planes / buses / businesses will leave “others” behind. Ironic since this was one of the original intent of Starlink was to connect the world.
man. starlink has just started and only deployed like 10% of their target number of total satellites planned to deploy. the more satellites means the more bandwidth also add the fact that starlink keeps updating their hardware like deploying the new v2 satellites which has more capabilities instead of using the same previous generation... give starlink some more years and it will destroy the competition in terms of capacity and speed. the only factor that starlink won't be able to overcome is the latency vs land-based systems.
@@iamwisdomsky The article seems to know how Starlink works. If satellite downlink bandwidth aggregation is really part of what they will do then that would tax their intra-satellite comms bandwidth. The best approach is to offload to a land based internet near the destination website. Remember these are relatively“small” satellites and don’t have much power and I mean power in every sense of the word.
Lastly, even then the math I provided x10 of what the website said. Just think about it.
Just to be clear, I believe in the tech I think satellite net will really revolutionize internet and bring it to far flung places. Also,the old Satellite internet is too slow and very unreliable and Starlink is orders of magnitude better, Heck I may even buy and subscribe if the rumored retained partner (Converge) is true. However, I am just saying that the current tech as it is just has the concurrency limitations.
Such an exclusive deal is actually very common. Remember when iPhone was only available with T-Mobile to justify their investment in EDGE?
It was initially only available with Cingular (now known as AT&T). In the UK, it was only available with O2.
So we have the gen one, waiting on gen 2 followed by let me guess gen 3 4 and 5 Kessler here we come
Actually Att was way ahead of this games . Their subsidary satellite company has already successfully done a voice call on a 5g transmitter mounted to a satellite (which is actually what we’re talking about here)
T-Mobile has yet to do this as of June 23
Realistically what’s holding things back is concerns of EM interference. The FCC has been petitioned that tmobiles plan is not going to work until they address interference with the bands next to them In the spectrum.